Bertrand Russell Quotes

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Bertrand Russell Quotes

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Mathematician

Philosophical

“Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.”

Way Two Teacher

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Mathematician

Philosophical

“The whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. We ought to stand up and look the world frankly in the face. We ought to make the best we can of the world, and if it is not so good as we wish, after all it will still be better than what these others have made of it in all these ages.”

Men Age Wish

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Philosophical

“Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.”

Morality Ethics

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Spiritual

“Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.”

Life Happiness

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Philosophical

“One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence”

World Doctrine Adequate

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Anxious

“I FIND IT SO DIFFICULT NOT TO HATE, WHEN I DO NOT HATE I FEEL WE FEW ARE SO LONELY IN THE WORLD”

World Hate Lonely

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Calm

“If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.”

Work Christmas Holiday

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Anxious

“Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.”

Interesting Decision Boredom

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Philosophical

“The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.”

Men Intellectual Vices

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Philosophical

“It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.”

Men Believe Intuition

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Creative

“The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear.”

Thinking Color Common Sense

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Philosophical

“The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest.”

Benefits Social Contracts

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